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race. We then decompose the differences in lifetime earnings using the recentered influence function and show that human …
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similar to that found using 2003 data on individual immigrants. Controls for extensive labor market characteristics and race …
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The wage gap between African-Americans and white Americans is substantial in the US and has slightly narrowed over the past 30 years. Today, blacks have almost achieved the same educational level as whites. There is reason to believe that discrimination driven by prejudice plays a part in...
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-wage compensation across race groups. Our results show that African American men on average are significantly less likely to receive …
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Conventional wisdom about the criminal justice system suggests that extralegal factors such as race or employment … imprisonment and unemployment and race. The model suggests that penal practices are shaped by the labor market conditions of a …
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elective race is ascending, poised to become one of the dominant frameworks for understanding race in the United States …. Because we are in a period of transition, many Americans still are wedded to fairly traditional attitudes about race. For … these Americans, race is still an objective, easily ascertainable fact determined by the process of involuntary racial …
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This paper explores the racial differences in politicians’ persistence in elections. Empirical data from California city council elections and a close election regression dis- continuity design (CERDD) suggest that losing an election causes 70% attrition in rerunning for office. After a loss,...
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